I heard that the state-wide school diploma essays for "German" that were taken today had an article about the changes which were introduced to the world by YouTube as one option.
Eine Katze verändert die Welt (Die Zeit, 2006)
(the other ones were about 2) Emilia Galotti, 3) an analysis of a Baroque lyric poem compared with another, modern one, or 4) something by Theodor Fontane.)